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Epigram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: (epi-gramma) "to write on - inscribe", the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek...
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Guide to Previous Month's Epigrams of the Day ... There is not yet a search feature for topics or words, as the original 1001 Epigrams didn't have one either, but I'm working on it. Until then you must simply scan the previous month's listings...
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List of 120 programming-related aphorisms. ... 2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process. ... From ACM's SIGPLAN publication, (September, 1982), Article "Epigrams in Programming", by Alan J. Perlis of Yale University.
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John Donne's Epigrams ... This HTML e-text of John Donne's "Epigrams" was created in November 2000 by Anniina Jokinen of Luminarium. ... Source text: Donne, John. "Epigrams." Poems of John Donne. Vol II. E. K. Chambers, Editor. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896. 210-.
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There are 20 quotations for your search 'Aphorisms Epigrams'. QUOTES AND QUOTATIONS. ... The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. ... Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Hellenistic Epigrams. Originally an epigram was something written upon or into another medium, either a dedicatory inscription or a memorial to the dead, but as it changed over time, brevity became the soul of epigram ... Such dedicatory inscriptions were one of two common types of epigrams. The other primary use of epigrams...
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Epigrams; Emily Dickinson, aside from writing 1,775 poems, also wrote a number of epigrams.Epigram derives from the Greek epigramma- "in-scribed"- and it is a short meaningful saying that could be carved on a tombstone or monument.
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In English, epigrams are usually rhymed and in meter (a law-abiding rhythm that follows a set pattern of accents and syllables), though they can be loose and freewheeling. The couplet is a favorite form for the epigram: a pair of rhymed lines in the same meter.
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In Greece, epigrams were written at first in hexameters, later in elegiacs (see METRE, GREEK 3 and 4). The early epigrams (of the seventh century BC) were placed on gravestones or votive tablets, composed so as to suggest that the dead man or the dedicator was directly addressing the reader, giving him the bare facts in...
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